Boschniakia. OROBANCHACE^. 313 



* * Flowers nearly sessile or the lower ones short-pedicelled, simply spicate or thyrsoid: calyx 

 bibracteokite, deeply 5-eleft into linear-lanceolate lobes: upper lip or all the lobes of the more 

 tubular corolla less spreading: whole plant viscidh' pruinose-puberulent. 



A. multiflorum, Gray, 1. c. A span or two higli : calyx almost 5-parted, fully half the 

 length of the ample (incii or more long) purplish corolla : anthers very woolly. — Orobanche 

 mullijiora, Nutt. PI. Gamb. 179. P/ielijirea Ludovicianu, Torv. 13ot. Mex. Bound. 110, in part. 

 P. erianlkera, Engelm. in Troc. Am. Acad. vii. 372. — Gravelly plains and pine woods, 

 W. Texas, New Mexico, and 8. Colorado, to Arizona. (Adjacent Mex.) 



A. Ludovicianum, Gray, 1. c. Rather less pubescent : spikes more frequently com- 

 pound : calyx less deeply and somewhat unequally 5-cleft: corolla about half smaller; 

 upper lip sometimes almost entire: anthers (before dehiscence) glabrous or nearly so. — 

 Orobanche Ludoviciaiia, Nutt. Gen. ii. 58. Phe/ipcea Ludouiciana, Walp. 1. c. ; Renter in DC-. 

 1. c. — Illinois and Saskatchewan to Texas, thence west to Arizona and the south-eastern 

 borders of California. (Adjacent Mex.) 



* * * Flowers subsessile or short-pedicelled, thyrsoid-paniculate. small, otherwise nearly as in 

 the preceding section: stems with a thickened tuber-like squamose base: anthers glabrous: 

 corolla yellowish, half inch long. 



A. tuberosum.', Gray, 1. c. Pruinose puberulent, seldom a span high : short and dense 

 spikes corymbose-glomerate at the summit of the thick stem : calyx-lobes lanceolate, longer 

 than the tube. — Phcllpaa tuberosd, Gvay, Proc. Am. Acad. vii. 371. — Dry ridges, Califor- 

 nia, from Monterey to San Diego, and San Bernardino Co., Brewer, Palmer, Parry. 



A. pinetorum. Gray, 1- c. More pubescent : stem ratlier slender above the large tuber- 

 ous base, a span to a foot high : flowers in a rather loose elongated panicle : calyx-lobes 

 subulate from a broad base, not longer than the tube. — Orobanche puielorum, Geyer in 

 Hook. Kew Jour. Bot. ill. 297. — Oregon to British Columbia, on the roots of Pir-trees. 



3. CONOPHOLIS, Wallr. Squaav-root. (A'coj'o-,-, cone, and ffo?.<V, scale, 

 the young plant, clothed with the imbricated dry scales and bracts, not unlike a 

 slender Fir-cone.) — Single sjjecies. 



C. Americana, W^allr. Glabrous, simple, 3 or 4 and in fruit becoming 6 to 10 inches 

 long, as thick as the thumb, light chestnut-colored, and with yellowish flowers: scales ♦,! 

 first rather fleshy, at length firm-chartaceous. — Orobanch. 78 ; Endl. Iconogr. t. 81. Oro- 

 banche Americana, L. f. Suppl. 88. — Oak woods, in clusters among decaying fallen leaves, 

 New England to Michigan and Florida: fl. summer. (Mex.) 



4. BOSCHNIAKIA. C. A. Meyer. (In memory of Boschniaki, a Rus- 

 sian botanist.) — Short and thick, simple-stemmed from a tuberous caudex, brown, 

 glabrous, scaly ; the sessile flowers each subtended by a scaly bract nearly equal- 

 ling the corolla ; the whole forming a mostly dense cylindrical spike. W. N. 

 American, E. Asian and Himalayan : fl. summer. 



* Calyx-teeth short and broad: plaeeiitixj 2: scales (acutish) and corolla-lobes somewhat ciliate. 



B. glabra, C. A. Meyer. A span to a foot high : scales ovate : anterior calyx-tooth 

 larger: lower lip of the ovoid ventricose corolla almost obsolete: filaments merely gland- 

 ular at base. — Bong. Veg. Sitka, 158, where the genus was first described. Orobanche, &c., 

 Gmel. Sibir. iii. 216, t. 40. 0. Rossica, Cham. & Schlecht. in Linn. iii. 1-32. 0. {Bosch.) 

 (jlabrn. Hook. Fl. ii. 02, t. 167. — Aleutian Islands and east to Slave Lake. (Japan, 

 Siberia.) The reference in DC. Prodr. to E. United States and Mexico was an oversight. 



B. Hookeri, ^AT^alp. Smaller: scales oblong, rather sparse: spike short: lower lip of 

 the oblong corolla fully half the length of the ui)per ; its lobes ovate-oblong: filaments 

 bearded at base. — Rep. iii. 479; Renter in DC. I.e. 39. Orobanche tuberosa. Hook. Fl. ii. 92, 

 t. 168. — N. W. Coast, Menzies: not since seen. 



* * Calyx-tcoUi linear-subulate and longer than the tube: scales very broad and obtuse: pla- 

 centae 4, equidistant. 



B. strobilacea. Gray. A span high or less, stout and thick, brownish-red, flowering 

 almost from the base : scales nmch imbricated, orbicular and round-obovate : lower lip of 



